1937-04-15 — Page 21

THE

HONGKONG

THURSDAY, TELEGRAPH.

APRIL

15, 1937.

TREVOR WIGNAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO OXFORD'S BOAT RACE TRIUMPH

GRIT WINS THEM ONE

OF THE BEST RACES SEEN FOR YEARS

London, Mar. 25. TT will be many a long year before there is another Oxford and

Cambridge Boat-race like the great one of yesterday.

The crowd, for a weekday, was tremendous, but it was one of the highlights of the morning that even those enthusiasts who sported light blue colours, were among the most hearty with their choers when the news was flashed down the river banks that Oxford had broken the spell that first settled on them in 1924.

It is to be doubted whether there bridge is an English sports festival has ever been a more popular victory. at its very best. One of the lesser humours was the spectacle of elderly Cambridge men, dignified and solemn before the event, delightedly shaking hands in the manner of excited schoolboys with equally elderly Oxford men, when the biggest river thrill that has been provided since the war was over.

There was no disposition to speak of the Oxford crew us super-carsmen, or even to compare them with some the brilliant eights of the past, but

of

BẢN ON

BAER FIGHT

DEMANDED

U.S. CREATES A

was everywhere agreement that U.S. CREATES A

there the way they stuck to their opponents when It was generally supposed that they would be left in the rear was among the finest scenes ever witness- ed on the waters of old Father Thames.

THE CRUTCHES

SENSATION

(By Trevor Wignall)

The B.B.B.C.,

London Mar. 25.

Lieut. Davies (left) and Lieut. Wright, two of Colony's leading bockey players during the season just ending." Davies plays for the Navy and has represented England at centre-half, and Weight is the Colony and English International right-inner.

Amazing Recovery By Cambridge In The Varsity Golf Match

(By Vagrant) ·

Prince's, Sandwich.

Lynch May Defy Boxing Board

(Continued from Page 8.)

agreed to allow Jock. McAvoy, the middle-weight champion, to meet Eddie Phillips, the light-heavyweight champion, at Wembley next month, although they had previously ruled that McAvoy's next opponent must be Jack Hyams, the London middle- weight.

USA, VISIT HITCH

He also mentioned that Lynch hos postponed his contemplated visit to America until Inter in the year.

The spirit of rebellion against, the BBB.C. is spreading In Scot- land, and Mr. Dingley's present intention is to defy the board.

the George Cook,

Australian heavy-weight, who some weeks ago was astounded when his application for a renewal of a permit to fight")

refused, yesterday appeared before the stewards of appeal of the board.

Was

He was represented by a barrister, but the proceedings were very short.

ed

After a few questions had been asked, Cook was informed that the ilcence he required would be fasued.

provided last night when it be Oxford have walled long for the A FRESH boxing sensation was triumph of yesterday. Before they came known that the stewards of the

It was the Southern Council of went out for one of the few false British Boxing Board of Control, starts ever known-there were plenty under the chairmanship of Colonel

with a long puit, but the lead was the B.B.B.C. that declined to grant a Mydelton, had met to consider a who declared there was no preced-

Lucas won the next permit, and the decision of the

to atewards of appeal not accept ont for this there was the usual talk demand made by Madison-square

meaning that n of decadence and a loss of rowing Garden, New York, that the fight at

At the end of the day's four. back to two. next month between Max

somes play. Oxford and Carn. With a perfect second shot, and Cam- this is taken as

bridge squared after an unforgettable mistako was made. Recommendo- nbility, but I wonder how many have Harringay next mo

Mitchell-Innes, whose con- ever seen a Aner lot of young fellows Baer and Tommy Farr be banned.

on Infrequent than those who slowly and carefully The directors of the Garden claim bridge were level in the annual hunt when took their seals? To me the most that Baer is under contract to them, inter-University match with two fidence on the grren had slowly ebbed sons of branches, however, are turn-

must record that Cambridge were wonderful person of the day was the that he accepted £400 from cox with the crutches. His disability when he signed the contract, them and a half points each. Cam-away, falled with a short one. One occasions.

right to bridge led at the luncheon inter- lucky, for Lucas's cut drive whistled away to the far slope of a banked is such as to make one marvel that that therefore he has no he can take any part in sport, but fight any one or anywhere until he val in three of the five games,

Lucus and Dixon, their leading ditch only to be saved from total I had been called on to raise has fulfilled, his agreement to meet

pair, had run up against a wonder-loss by a sucker which enabled his special cheer it would have been in Bob Pastor.

who are afliated ful start by Mitchell-Innes, then partner to lift and drop. his direction that I would have

State Commission. fallen sadly nway by disconcerting

Behind them Carter and Winton turned.

to observe the and totally untypical errors. Garden contract, Carter and Winton had got a lead were producing too much for Scolt third, won the fourth, where Scott and to prevent him from appearing of one hole in a ding-dong fight with and Ramsden. They got a 2 at the

Scott and Ramsden.

was over the green. A remarkable in an English ring.

Langley and Boulton were two up nautical feat by Winton, who waded

Thorburn in a game barefooted into a

bunker to explode an Fisher and

Macao, Apr. 14. full of good golf.

Oil and water-colour paintings, and halt. Cambridge

enlargements of photographs deplet- holed

nt a horribly matters against Grieve ond Thor-

long putt Brig-General Critchley, Mr. Frank burn, whilst Goodban

the sixth to make his side four up, ing local life and portraits In oil were Gentle, Colonel Walter Wilson, and finishing like tigers, had wiped out a scott saved the ninth with a long attractively displayed in an exhibi- Mr. Syd Hulls appeared for Hurrin- three holes deficit in the last four putt by way of counter thrust, and tion which took place in the audi-

Arena and the Greyhound holes to finish one up. gay

Contrary to expectations the North his side faced the last stretch four torium Racing Association.

by benefiting All the stewards of the B.B.B.C. wind of yesterday had fallen consider holes down, but they put up a good

coming in, and e bunker trouble at the Saturday by H. who were, qualified to act were inably, and a day of sunshine took some attendance, and the proceedings be of the bitterness out of it. cupied nearly three hours.

There was a good deal of coni- ment about the nearness to each other of the boats on two or three occasions -more than once it seemed certain that the touching of oars would bring about an infringement and in the launches that followed the crews breaths were held in anticipation of an incident that would have ruined splendid test of endurance and skill. For more than half the distance the two sheils were practically level, but it was Oxford who were the fresher at the finish. The slowness of the time is accounted for solely by the conditions.

stage.

THE CHARM

to the New York were requested Madison-square

The Garden was represented by Junior Mr. G. D. Roberts, K.C.,

to the Treasury and a counsel former England Rugger player, and three solicitors,,

of

at

Dalley and Ellis had had the worst this ball out in a shower of sp

with

At

and Booth,

Frost dur-

ent

stone for,

but

MACAO ART EXHIBITION STUDENTS' FINE DISPLAY

of the gymnasium of the Macao Lyceum.

The exhibition was opened last E. the Acting Sr. Jono Crisos-

first

next

year's

The display consisted of exhibits

I heard somebody say that there

I understand that Mr. Roberting the night had covered the casual the putter at the eleventh the defeit tomo, after on inspection of the

oceans with a thin coating of ice, but was down to two. But three pults school. were more foreigners as watchers

for more than thirty is this thawed and the sun touched came Oxford's way at the fourteenth; than ever before. There is no way

minutes, and that his request was the blue ripples, the scene was pleas- Cambridge got a 3 at the Axcenti Barbosa, visited the exhibition on Afteenth, H.E. the Governor, Dr. Tamagnini of checking this statement, but one matter that must have struck visitors that the New York agreement be ing to any who were not involved in and though Oxford won the

respected. from other countries was that ninety

they

Monday afternoon, being welcomed went down by 2 and 1. Replies were made by General the strife,

BAD WEATHER RULES

Langley and Boulter per cent of the gathering had no

had a perll- by Mr. F. Lara Reis on behalf of the intimate connection with either uni-Critchley, who gave Baer his English

By mutual arrangement a ball in- ous fent on landslide to finish their School Association. Dr. Barbosa was versity. That is the charm of the contract, Mr. Gentle and Mr. Hun bedded in turf could be lifted and morning round, and now they lost much impressed by the high stan- Boat-race: It is the most democratic while Mr. Ancil-Hoffman,-the-mana-

prize event that even this country can ger of Baer, also spoke on the wrapped without penalty and those three of the first six in the afternoon, dard of work and offered to give

the making a total loss of six in nine the mud adhering wiped on fighter's behalf.

At the close of the conference it the third, Lawrie holed a cruel tions which even Langley's ability

holes. Boulter brought .some situa-exhibition. Its magnificent sporting spirit has

was announced that, the decision too often commented on to need been

the

hoard would not be made ten-footer for a two. Sul they at- could not altogether his side which were the work of students of

tacked, Luens hitting Q glorious it was Langley who further reference here, but it was curlous to encounter people who still known until to-day, and the beliefond home from the rough at the in a great fight by holing a 120 | the Lyceum, and it commanded a

ressed to me

that the LED Was

more than ordinary interest for a asked what the participants got out of

residents. stewards will vote in favour of fourth, with Mitchell-Innes through putt on the lust

large number of local it. I I think the answer is that their

the green, and finding the green at

FOUR IN A ROW Harringay. spell, of Spartan main reward for

The short fifth with his opponent Dulley and Ellis, after losing the Visitors from Hongkong to the exh!-

tion housta

were teachers of the To Sing training that would break

I am in a position to state that if

Arst hole to a 4, then won four holes Chinese Arts Institute of Hongkong. great splash into fecling of salisiaction that rapidiyntely registered, and that the matter bail fell with a

whilst the Oxford just off

pair,

the

Our Own Correspondent. evaporates. There are no glitterin, will then be taken to the High Court, depths of a waterlogged bunker.

But for the intense partisanship, fairway, found lies from which they huge Baer expects to earn at least trizes, no swollen purses, no gate-receipts, and in the main-no £30,000 while he is in this country, the doings at the seventh must have could not get home in the last match.

rare matter for hilarity, till

Goodban lofted a stymie at the inquests. It is not old-school-tielsh to but if he is stopped from fighting ns finished the comedy of errors twelfth to give his side the lead, Afteen-foot putt. Webb promptly removed by by manfully holing a Mitchell-Innes made one of his rare cracking a number 3 iron dead at the errors at the eighth, leaving his port- next, Cambridge came to grief at three-quarter stymic, the 17th and 18th, and the Oxford ner with a which

expressed

that

his

green.

and the backs of most athletes e alt is not an appeal will be immediTM under-clubbing inscit, so the in a row, playing the holes perfectly. and the Sung Sat School of Macno-

remark that the annual meeting of his gains, of course, will the blade-operators Oxford and Cam- considerably less.

Lilian HARVEY

GAY ROMANTIC MUSICAL FANTASY

be very

INVITATION

WALTZ

CARL ESMOND RICHARD BIRD

HAROLD WARRENDER: ESME PERCY WENDY TOYE ERIC STANLEY HAY: PETRIE

CHARLES CARSON / ALEXANDER FIELD ANTON DOLIN

TO-MORROW

AT

THE

KB D PADU MERZBACH

QUEEN'S

the obbed his side of a half, and pair got home after a highly exciting

three.

lead.

was then down to

10 game.

Up to this point he was hit- The feature of the morning's golf ting his

shots

crisply and accurately, was Oxford's play in the leading whiist Lucus was struggling all the match. They went off 4, 4, 4, 3, time against the tendency to wild-to be four up. Lawrie was early

tec. Now, at the nintli,

He pitched ness from the tee.

up

2.

dead at the

Lucas pushed his tee shot away intocrit and holed from ten feet at

second;

the rough. Dixon crashed his second the

the third. Varied, thrusts and name- through, to which Mitchell-Innes re-less misadventures brought an Ox- plied with a delightful Iron shot home ford lead of 3 holes at the turn, to the green, and Oxford started for Cambridge having played 42 shots to home still

kill four holes to the good. their opponents' 38. When afternoon play started, a

ol

Coming home Mitch

Mitchell-Innes holed

goodly number spectators went out nasty downhill putt of 7 feet for a

with the leading match, some appre-half at the 10th, and another of 15 hensive of imminent slaughter, others feet at the 12th, to make his side 4 by strange Intuitio

cavery. Both

Rare-up. Then the Cambridge-holocaust

the rough

In turn started. Lucas pulled into the

at the 13th, Dixon found

the

bunker at hope, fear, and

All four players made brillant the 14th, Lucas found another at the starts, all four touched violently and 15th, Dixon was out of bounds at unexpectedly the depths of ineptitude: 18th, the combination used up three The Cambridge players were trans-putts at the 17th and that was nine figured men. They went off 4, 4, 3, down. At the 10th Mitchell-Innes made his first slip of the day, cut- but only won one hole back..

MITCHELL INNES UNSETTLED ting his second into a bunker, and Whether the stymie incident had Cambridge got one hole, and of what unsettled Mitchell-Innes, I

I don't value it was to prove later.

FOURSOMES know, but now some errors crept into

Position afla. 18 holes. In parentheses). his game. He missed the

the green to

OXFORD

CAMBRIDGE the right at the tenth, and the lead | •N. S. Mitchell-Innes

.

Pemb). G.

was down to three. Then Cambridge Bedbergh, NC). B. Lena (Stown, let a phapee go, for Lawrie played a (Thy U.N.C.) Dixon weak approach, but Dixon missed the

Best of two holeable, but, in the cir-K. U. Besti (Win

cumstances, agonising putts,

Cambridge got 'n

win.

and half instead of a

Lawrie holed a a good one at the twelfth, but failed with one at the thirteenth, Oxford's lead was now down to two..

chair Trio.) C.

Q. I. Ramsden (Eton, New) way, & "K. 1. Phher (Eun Beard.), *W. 1. E. Thorburn (Win chester. Trin.

. Grieve (Ample forth, Ch. Ch). CI. Walker. (Rowall Corp)

At the fourteenth poor Dixon was loft, again with a puit that looked to (3 up). him as long as the Polish-Corridor, F. Physick

[Rugby Corpus); but was under five feel, and Oxford. Webb (Char- got a hole back. Another of Lawric's terlinase, Fett) approach shots flew, half-heartedly

(2 up) and fell far short. Lucas lald a do- licate pitch dead, Lawrie hit the hole!

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